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Climate Change and the Moral Agent - Individual Duties in an Interdependent World (Hardcover)
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Climate Change and the Moral Agent - Individual Duties in an Interdependent World (Hardcover)
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Many of us take it for granted that we ought to cooperate to tackle
climate change. But where does this requirement come from, and what
does it mean for us as individuals trying to do the right thing?
Climate change does very great harm, to our fellow humans and to
the non-human world, but no one causes it on their own and it isn't
the result of intentionally collective action. In the face of the
current failure of institutions to face up to the problem, is there
anything we can do as individuals that will leave us able to live
with ourselves? This book responds to these challenges. It makes a
moral case for collective action on climate change by appealing to
moralized collective self-interest, collective ability to aid, and
an expanded understanding of collective responsibility for harm. On
top of these, it argues that collective action is something we owe
to ourselves, as moral agents, because without it we are left
facing marring choices. In the absence of collective action,
individuals should focus on trying to promote such action (whether
through or by bypassing existing institutions), with a
supplementary duty to aid victims directly. The argument is not
that we should not be cutting our own emissions: this can be a
necessary part of bringing about collective action or alleviating
harm. However, such 'green' lifestyle choices cannot be
straightforwardly defended as duties in their own right, and they
should not take priority over trying to bring about collective
change.
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